Micro Drives

Anyone ever test one of the MicroDrives on the MPC1000 to see if it would work?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... 9394773514

I'm not sure about it (even though it states it's compatible with CF readers), but it would be cheaper to buy a 100gb hard drive instead.

i could be wrong on this, but i think the mpc can only see 2gb on the cf drive. i may be wrong on that though, i asked sparq once, and i can't remember what he thought. it could be that that was all that was a vailable at the time the 1k came out.

I use a 1GB microdrive for transferring samples from my PC to the mpc (With a flashcard reader). But I save al my projects on my 60gb hitachi HD.

I'm pretty sure about the 2gb limit on the compactflashcards aswell.

Thanks for the replies. I went with a 1GB CF card to hold me over till Akai ships back my 40GB hard drive and 128MB upgrade. I was just curious if one could get away with rocking one of those 2GB IBM Microdrives in the MPC1000 as it would be nice to have as a little backup.

Mike-P wrote:Thanks for the replies. I went with a 1GB CF card to hold me over till Akai ships back my 40GB hard drive and 128MB upgrade. I was just curious if one could get away with rocking one of those 2GB IBM Microdrives in the MPC1000 as it would be nice to have as a little backup.

yeah the 2gb one should be no problem, it's when you go above the 2gb that no one here is definitely sure one way or another.

Mr modnaR wrote:

Mike-P wrote:Thanks for the replies. I went with a 1GB CF card to hold me over till Akai ships back my 40GB hard drive and 128MB upgrade. I was just curious if one could get away with rocking one of those 2GB IBM Microdrives in the MPC1000 as it would be nice to have as a little backup.

yeah the 2gb one should be no problem, it's when you go above the 2gb that no one here is definitely sure one way or another.

I think the 2gb limitation on CF cards may be a thing of the past, considering OS 2.0 and 2.1 are FAT32 (which can support drives over 2gb). I don't have any CF cards of such capacity to test out, but theoretically it should work.

distortedtekno wrote:

Mr modnaR wrote:

Mike-P wrote:Thanks for the replies. I went with a 1GB CF card to hold me over till Akai ships back my 40GB hard drive and 128MB upgrade. I was just curious if one could get away with rocking one of those 2GB IBM Microdrives in the MPC1000 as it would be nice to have as a little backup.

yeah the 2gb one should be no problem, it's when you go above the 2gb that no one here is definitely sure one way or another.

I think the 2gb limitation on CF cards may be a thing of the past, considering OS 2.0 and 2.1 are FAT32 (which can support drives over 2gb). I don't have any CF cards of such capacity to test out, but theoretically it should work.

i didn't know it was fat32, it should be ok if that is the case.